LiveLink™ for Creo™ Parametric

Fan simulation
HVAC: Streamlines showing the velocity into the impeller and housing of an industrial fan. Model courtesy of Gianluca Argentini, Riello Burners, Italy.

LiveLink for Creo Parametric

The LiveLink for Creo Parametric delivers a seamless integration of CAD and simulation. By establishing an associative connection between the two applications, a change of a feature in the CAD model automatically updates the geometry in COMSOL Multiphysics, while retaining physics settings. All parameters specified in Creo Parametric can be interactively linked with your simulation geometry. This enables multiphysics simulation involving parametric sweeps and design optimization directly from within the CAD program.

The LiveLink for Creo Parametric includes all the capabilities of the CAD Import Module. This lets you import and defeature files from all major CAD packages.

Creo is a trademark of Parametric Technology Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and in other countries.

The LiveLink for Creo Parametric adds the following file formats to the wide array supported by the COMSOL product family:

MCAD File Formats Read Write
Autodesk Inventor® (.ipt, .iam) Yes No
Creo™ Parametric (.prt, .asm) Yes2 Yes2
SolidWorks® (.sldprt, .sldasm) Yes No
Parasolid® (.x_t, xmt_txt, .x_b, .xmt_bin) Yes Yes
ACIS® (.sat, .sab) Yes No
STEP (.step) Yes No
IGES (.iges) Yes No
CATIA V5 (.CATPart, .CATProduct)1 Yes No

See all supported file formats
1 Requires the LiveLink for Creo Parametric and the
File Import for CATIA® V5
2 Via the LiveLink interface

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